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by sunshinerag 490 days ago
Why is it called Roark?
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zammitjames 490 days ago
Great question! Roark is named after Ted Roark from Chuck — both of us (Daniel and I) watched Chuck a lot growing up, and the name just stuck with us.

No deep meaning, just something we liked and thought sounded cool!

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yowzadave 490 days ago
I had assumed it was a reference to the highly polarizing and political author Ayn Rand—might be worth giving some thought to!
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ddxv 490 days ago
My first thought when I saw the name was it would be an AI architecture firm related to Howard Roark from Atlas Shrugged.
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nojs 490 days ago
*the fountainhead
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ddxv 490 days ago
Right!
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